Financial planning

Here's how advisors, brokers and firms can measure their return on investment in social media.

Here is a succinct list of ingredients for advisors and brokers who want to get seriously involved in social media.

If you’re getting serious about social media, here’s the regulatory landscape, as of March 2012.

Here's an interactive slide show detailing some favorite (mainly fixed-income) techniques seven planners are using to boost returns in client portfolios:

Given uncertainty around soon-to-expire tax cuts, what can advisors do now? Here's an interactive slide show in which five planners discuss some top tax strategies.

Wall Street Horizon said it will send dates and date changes “within 1,000 milliseconds” of announcement. Deutsche Boerse units extend pooling market to short-term funding. New York Portfolio Clearing launched a Portfolio Risk Interactive Margin Estimator. Credit Suisse releases a “calendar roll” algorithm for fixed-income trading. LCH.Clearnet gets a “nonobjection” to its foreign exchange clearing plan.

The consolidated audit trail of orders placed and matched on the nation’s stock markets should cost a ‘fraction’ of what the SEC has estimated, according to a financial data expert and author speaking at TradeTech 2012 conference in New York.

It’s an advisor’s dream: Having customers as devoted and loyal as the adoring fans at a Lady Gaga concert. The customers would follow the advisor from bank to bank or even to a different channel in the same way that rock star groupies follow their favorite performers. Building that kind of loyalty, of course, isn’t easy. It takes time and perseverance. Rick Rummage, founder and CEO of the career-consulting firm The Rummage Group, has five tips for advisors who want to build a strong following among their customers. Here’s how they can achieve the advisor equivalent of rock star status.

Bill Gross and his team of bond specialists at Pacific Investment Management Company built the Total Return Fund into the world’s largest mutual fund, with more than a quarter-billion dollars in assets. Can he (and they) repeat the trick, with a Total Return exchange-traded fund?

It can be challenging - but enjoyable - advising those who are used to giving advice themselves.

Here’s an interactive slide show highlighting the 5 worst-performing Dow component stocks for February 2012.

Here’s an interactive slide show highlighting the 5 best-performing Dow component stocks for February 2012.

Nasdaq OMX Group said it entered into a new five-year employment agreement with Robert Greifeld, its chief executive officer.

Genworth Financial Wealth Management has hired the former executive director of global asset management at UBS to the post of strategic accounts director with a focus on institutional clients.

Financial planner Ed Guanill is joining author and RIA Keith Springer at his Sacramento, Calif.-based firm, Springer Financial Advisors.

The SEC could be hunkered down conducting cost-benefit analyses on each new rule-making it undertakes, including the scores coming out of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act.

Here's a slideshow highlighting the top seven investing advice books on Amazon, sorted by reader reviews.

Here are acronyms you will need to keep track of as clearing of what can be considered exchange-traded swaps starts up.

For bank reps looking to advance their careers, there’s no better news than a promotion or a job offer that’s too good to refuse. Here’s a sampling of bank reps who were either promoted or moved to new organizations to assume roles of greater responsibility from January 25 to February 9 of this year.

Credit Suisse said its Wealth Management clients contributed net new assets of $4.4 billion in the fourth quarter, even as its investment banking business took a steep plunge that led to a loss for the company as a whole.